A singer-songwriter and poet from Atascadero, California, Ephraim Scott Sommers recently won the 2016 Patricia Bibby First Book Award for his collection, The Night We Set the Dead Kid on Fire (forthcoming in 2017 from Tebot Bach Press). His poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Copper Nickel, Harpur Palate, The Journal, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, Verse Daily and elsewhere. Having received his PhD from Western Michigan University, Ephraim lectures full-time in the creative writing department at the University of Central Florida. For music and poems, please visit: www.reverbnation.com/ephraimscottsommers.